Telling Tales

Telling Tales
Author: Patience Agbabi
Publisher: Canongate Books
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2014-04-03
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1782111565

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015 Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral, Poet pilgrims competing for free picks, Chaucer Tales, track by track, it's the remix From below-the-belt base to the topnotch; I won't stop all the clocks with a stopwatch when the tales overrun, run offensive, or run clean out of steam, they're authentic and we're keeping it real, reminisce this: Chaucer Tales were an unfinished business. In Telling Tales award-winning poet Patience Agbabi presents an inspired 21st-Century remix of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales retelling all of the stories, from the Miller's Tale to the Wife of Bath's in her own critically acclaimed poetic style. Celebrating Chaucer's Middle-English masterwork for its performance element as well as its poetry and pilgrims, Agbabi's newest collection is utterly unique. Boisterous, funky, foul-mouthed, sublimely lyrical and bursting at the seams, Telling Tales takes one of Britain's most significant works of literature and gives it thrilling new life.

The Knights Before Christmas

The Knights Before Christmas
Author: Joan Holub
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2015-09-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0805099328

"'Twas December 24th, and three brave knights were just settling in for the night when out on the drawbridge, there arose such a clatter! The knights try everything to get rid of this unknown invader (Santa Claus!), a red and white knight with a fleet of dragons"--

Giovanni Boccaccio, Theseid of the Nuptials of Emilia

Giovanni Boccaccio, Theseid of the Nuptials of Emilia
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 616
Release: 2002
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

The first epic poem written in Italian is the Teseida delle nozze di Emilia (Theseid of the Nuptials of Emilia) by Giovanni Boccaccio, the well-known author of the Decameron. Conceived and composed during the Florentine author's stay in Naples, it combines masterfully both epic and lyric themes in a genre that may be defined as an epic of love. Besides its intrinsic literary value, the poem reflects the author's youthful emotions and nostalgia for the happiest times of his life.

The Way of Kings

The Way of Kings
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 1013
Release: 2014-03-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0765376679

A new epic fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author chosen to complete Robert Jordan's The Wheel of TimeĀ® Series

The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great

The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great
Author: Gerald Morris
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2008
Genre: Arthurian romances
ISBN: 0618777148

Relates tales of Sir Lancelot, the bravest knight in King Arthur's court.